I have been playing Twilight Struggle with my friends. After

After some thinking, we decided on some principles that should be used to make a game distinct and interesting

If Twilight struggle is founed on domino principle, we suggest hypothethical game would be founded on the "controlled chaos therory" and "global conspiracy theory"

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>>55139674
Starting with second thing. Why conspiracy?
First of all, that allows to avoid simple continuation of USA/USSR debackle. USA vs Russian Federation just will not work from balanced gameplay perspective
Second, it will allow to make superpower (or former one) into one of the places where contest goes on. For instance, that would allow to model certain impeachment processes or interesting elections as events
Third reason - and it ties to the first principle mentioned before - conspiracy theories mak place for false flag operations, provocations etc. which is what "controlled chaos theory" is based on
Now, just what conspiracy should that be?.. If one side would be "globalists" - what would be other one?..

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Now, for the first principle. We suggest, in departing from the original game's mechanic, have third kind of influence. That would represent instability. Both players would be able to use it to try and further their goals somehow, yet it would represent a danger to their eforts to control things

That is the general idea, although how can it be implemented?
One of the ideas we had was to try and steal Pandemic mechanic with some fashion

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A question, naturally, arises about the timeframe. Let us say "Twilight Struggle" ends as the Berlin Wall falls. It is as good (and symblic) point as any
then the game would have 3 decade-long phases, one would presume. Question is, can all of them be "filled" with events suitable for game adoption?
Some of those events seem pretty selectable. For instance, shelling of the House of Soviets in Moscow, 1993. Or 9/11, naturally
But much more are needed, of course

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However, when we have tried being more concrete, we have been stumped
Direct translation of operation mechanics seem to be next to impossible with 3 kinds of imfluence. Some change is probably needed - but in what way?
What must be gameplay purpose of "chaos influence"? maybe it could be some kind of dynamic instability - actually reducing the stability of a country, thus making it easier to clai control over it. Maybe it can be used to degrade all infuences in the country in place of realignment?

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Another issue is sad, sad lack of space race going on
What other mechanic can replace it? Probably it can be exchanged for some sort of once-in-a-turn ability, of course. For globalists - stansfer their center of power, for example. But for their opponents?
Maybe exchange it for internet development?..